This is the follow-up, but it's not much. We had a great time two weekends ago. We walked around 2.5 miles to, within and coming from the cave, then the next day Ethan wanted to walk to his grandparents house, which is another 2.5 miles. I was thinking my 7-year old was going to let me rest, but we woke me up early saying he wanted to walk there and back. Two weeks ago, on a 3 day weekend we walk very close to 10 miles in 3 days.

Last Sunday we walked the 5 miles to and from his grandparents house again. Tomorrow the weather is possibly messy and we are going to Greenville, KY on Sunday...so we won't make our 5 mile hike this week.

I'm trying to work Ethan up to larger caving trips and walking to and from his grandparents house is probably the best way for now. We are about 150 feet off in elevation between our houses in the almost exact 2.5 miles distance. Ethan loves to compete and since it is up and down hill we call the steepest hills the "beast." Our first walk we talked all about kicking the beast, but on the second hick we just talked the whole way...not about kicking the beast, instead we talked about what we were thinking.